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83
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World Ranking
438
National Ranking
233

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Polish Academy of Science
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Barbara Romanowicz is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans mainly within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on geophysics. The scientist's work extensively covers subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The primary research topics explored include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Barbara Romanowicz has frequently published in several scientific journals. The most common venues for their work are:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Deflating the LLSVPs: Bundles of Mantle Thermochemical Plumes Rather Than Thick Stagnant 'Piles'," 2020, Tectonics
  • "On the relative temperatures of Earth's volcanic hotspots and mid-ocean ridges," 2022, Science
  • "Imaging deep-mantle plumbing beneath La Réunion and Comores hot spots: Vertical plume conduits and horizontal ponding zones," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Dynamic history of the inner core constrained by seismic anisotropy," 2021, Nature Geoscience

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Daniel A. Frost
  • Jean-Paul Montagner
  • Li-Wei Chen
  • Brian Chandler
  • Yder Masson

Throughout their career, Barbara Romanowicz has been recognized by various scientific organizations. They became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1990 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. They were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2017, they received recognition from the Polish Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth's mantle beneath major hotspots

    Scott W. French;Barbara Romanowicz;Barbara Romanowicz

  • The three‐dimensional shear velocity structure of the mantle from the inversion of body, surface and higher‐mode waveforms

    Charles Mégnin;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Lithospheric layering in the North American craton

    Huaiyu Yuan;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents.

    Yuancheng Gung;Mark Panning;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Global mantle shear velocity model developed using nonlinear asymptotic coupling theory

    Xiang-Dong Li;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography

    S. W. French;B. A. Romanowicz;B. A. Romanowicz;B. A. Romanowicz

  • A Three-Dimensional Radially-Anisotropic Model of Shear Velocity in the Whole Mantle

    Mark Panning;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Excitation of Earth's continuous free oscillations by atmosphere–ocean–seafloor coupling

    Junkee Rhie;Barbara Romanowicz

  • AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY IN THE EARTH FROM OBSERVATIONS OF SKS AT GEOSCOPE AND NARS BROADBAND STATIONS

    Lev P. Vinnik;Veronique Farra;Barbara Romanowicz

  • North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions

    David L. Abt;David L. Abt;Karen M. Fischer;Scott W. French;Scott W. French;Heather A. Ford

  • Cluster analysis of global lower mantle tomography: A new class of structure and implications for chemical heterogeneity

    Vedran Lekic;Vedran Lekic;Sanne Cottaar;Adam Dziewonski;Barbara Romanowicz;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Toward real-time estimation of regional moment tensors

    Michael E. Pasyanos;Douglas S. Dreger;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Superplumes from the Core-Mantle Boundary to the Lithosphere: Implications for Heat Flux

    Barbara Romanowicz;Yuancheng Gung

  • Time Scales and Heterogeneous Structure in Geodynamic Earth Models

    Hans Peter Bunge;Mark A. Richards;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni;John R. Baumgardner

  • Global Mantle Tomography: Progress Status in the Past 10 Years

    Barbara Romanowicz

  • Waveform Tomography Reveals Channeled Flow at the Base of the Oceanic Asthenosphere

    Scott French;Vedran Lekic;Barbara Romanowicz;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Viscosity of Oceanic Asthenosphere Inferred from Remote Triggering of Earthquakes

    Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann;Barbara Romanowicz;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Mantle Anchor Structure: An argument for bottom up tectonics

    Adam M. Dziewonski;Vedran Lekic;Barbara A. Romanowicz

  • Comparison of global waveform inversions with and without considering cross-branch modal coupling

    Xiang-Dong Li;Barbara Romanowicz

  • A global tomographic model of shear attenuation in the upper mantle

    B. Romanowicz

  • Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes

    Anthony A. P. Koppers;Thorsten W. Becker;Matthew G. Jackson;Kevin Konrad;Kevin Konrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Montagner
Jean-Paul Montagner Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Douglas S. Dreger
Douglas S. Dreger University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Bodin
Thomas Bodin École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Michael E. Pasyanos
Michael E. Pasyanos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Adam M. Dziewonski
Adam M. Dziewonski Harvard University
Eléonore Stutzmann
Eléonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Philippe Lognonné
Philippe Lognonné Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Lev Vinnik
Lev Vinnik Russian Academy of Sciences
Hrvoje Tkalčić
Hrvoje Tkalčić Australian National University
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay University of California, Davis

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